| landmark of St. Johann is the so-called Russenfriedhof, a cemetery of Prisoners of War. In 1941, the Nazis built a POW camp in St. Johann where they kept up to 30,000 people that were forced to work.
Within the four years before the end of WWII, 3,700 soldiers died (mostly Russian POWs, which were considered racially inferior and treated worse than others). Today, there is a memorial site and the cemetery which are open to the public. |